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5.0 out of 5 stars
Like good and plently, good to the last drop.........., January 23, 2005
This review is from: Little Black Girl Lost (Paperback)
Little Black Girl Lost is a novel filled with drama, action, and suspense. It will have you glued to the oversized chair, with peppermints and a bottle of water. It takes you back to an era where things happened and were often over-looked unless you took matters into your own hands. This is what Ms. Johnni Wise did. She handled business as she dealt with the life that was given to her, not of her own choosing. Ms. Wise had to grow up very quickly as her mother sold her virginity on Christmas Eve, and from there the trails and tribulations unfold. Your emotions will want to reach out and hug Ms. Johnnie Wise but she is resilient, a characteristic she must have in order to survive. So, come take this journey with Keith Lee Johnson as he invites you into the world of secrets, lies, betrayal, sex, and drama that Ms. Johnni Wise will encounter.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Little Girl Lost, July 16, 2005
This review is from: Little Black Girl Lost (Paperback)
How does a church-going, singing-in-the choir, piano-playing Christian end up as a prostitute? Her mother sells her to an eager white man, of course. Sixteen-year-old Johnnie Wise's life will be forever changed after the rainy Christmas Eve when her mother, Marguerite, decides to introduce her to the world of prostitution that Marguerite has inhabited since being sold by her own mother. Feeling soiled and dirty, Johnnie turns her forced prostitution into an advantage. Investing the money that Earl Shamus pays her, she uses her newly acquired bedroom skills to convince the man to buy her a home in an upscale black neighborhood. While all of this was taking place, she finds a man who truly loves her; she returns that love, promising him that the prostitution will eventually end. Then her new lover's gangster boss wants Johnnie and the true tension begins.
Marguerite, in a fit of jealousy and envy over her sixteen-year-old daughter's good luck, attempts to blackmail one of her own customers, who just happens to be head of the Ku Klux Klan, into buying her a home in the same neighborhood. Things rapidly begin to fall apart for everyone when the Grand Dragon takes his revenge.
Keith Lee Johnson has written a suspenseful novel filled with rage, revenge, sex and even genuine love. The picture he paints of Louisiana in the 1950s is fascinating and is something of a history lesson in itself. I do hope Mr. Johnson is writing a sequel so we can follow Johnnie Wise and witness the rest of her extraordinary life.
Reviewed by alice Holman
of The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers
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15 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Introspections, March 18, 2005
This review is from: Little Black Girl Lost (Paperback)
Early 1950's in New Orleans we have a budding beauty Little Miss Johnnie "Wise" her very name is golden, and no one has yet to realize that this little miss is more than a sight for sore eyes! With a heart pure as gold, and a voice filled with praise Miss Wise is a child of God, and all she wants is to live accordingly. God bless the children!
That is until that rainy Christmas Eve. Miss Johnnie Wise innocence is loss forever thanks to the lust of a well known child molester, and a devious mother. A mother who in her own sick mind thought that she was sparing her child's heart! Did the ends justify the means?
Was I not a good Christian? Miss Wise pondered why she'd been lead astray. It wasn't even her who initiated the sin, yet Miss Johnnie Wise would have to incur the ridicule and try to understand the way of the world with or without God.
As Miss Johnnie Wise realized that she held the note for the most delectable "brown sugar" in New Orleans she uses her senses to profit utilizing her astonishing gift.
As jealousy steals her mothers life Johnnie Wise realizes that maybe it's too much. Or is it? She's found a secure new love in young Lucas, while maintaining her stocks, balancing her insurance, and the protection of the mob Miss Wise will ultimately school the onlookers.
This is a very detailed book filled with painstaking truths, lust, betrayal, and more importantly greed! Will Little Miss Wise be triumphant in the end?
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